Hydriatic treatment of scarlet fever in its different forms, or how to save, through a systematic application of the water-cure, many thousands of lives and healths, which now annually perish : being the result of twenty-one years' experience, and of the treatment and cure of several hundred cases of eruptive fevers / by Charles Munde.

  • Munde, Carl.
Date:
1857
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Credit: Hydriatic treatment of scarlet fever in its different forms, or how to save, through a systematic application of the water-cure, many thousands of lives and healths, which now annually perish : being the result of twenty-one years' experience, and of the treatment and cure of several hundred cases of eruptive fevers / by Charles Munde. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    68. LENGTH OF PACK—PERSPIRATION. To make quite sure of the reaction, the single sheet may be tried first, except in exceedingly violent cases, and the double sheet may be resorted to, if the single sheet prove inefficient. Or, should there be any doubt, the double sheet may be dipped in water of a higher tem- perature than that given above, say 55 to 60°. With young and delicate children I prefer this course, espe- cially if they be very excitable, and the shock of very cold water may be expected to be too much for their nerves. In these matters some discrimination should be used: it is always better we should keep on the safe side, and rather give a pack more than frighten the little pa- tients out of their wits. Proceed safely, but firmly and try to obtain your object in the mildest manner possible. 69. Before perspiration comes on, there is a little more excitement for a few minutes (41), which must not induce the friends of the patient to take him out of the pack; only when it continues to increase, instead of the perspiration breaking out and relieving the patient, it will be necessary to change the sheet, another time, as in that case the organism is not fully prepared for per- spiration. After the breaking out of the latter, the pa- tient invariably feels easier, and continues so for some time. When the feverish symptoms increase, during perspiration, which can be ascertained by feeling the pulse on the temples and by the thermometer, it is time to remove the patient from the pack, to give him his bath. Half an hour's perspiration is commonly suffi- cient ; if the patient feel easy, however, and can be pre- vailed upon to stay an hour, or longer, till a good tho- rough perspiration brings permanent relief, it will be better. It would be unwise to let the patient stay too long and get him in a state of over-excitement; but, on the other hand, parents ought to remember that very